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by ryandvm 2y ago
> Maybe I have a different definition of “rude”, but I feel that openly ignoring someone’s request is at the very least disrespectful, if not rude. The problem is an asymmetric social contract. The business has no problem making a disres
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Yup. Anybody that doesn't understand that most problems are complicated doesn't understand most problems.
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Absolutely. Replicating the way humans do it is also going to replicate the failure modes (optical illusions, crappy low light performance, etc.)
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by ryandvm 2y ago
So... just to summarize the state of things: The guy running the leading AI company was previously fired by the board because they didn't think he was showing proper restraint with regard to A LOT of areas. That decision was quickly ov
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I suspect you'd be similarly aghast if you could smell alcohol consumption.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
That's exactly how they're going to lock you. When your AI assistant is trained on 10 years of texts and emails, the lock-in potential is going to be huge. Switching phone ecosystems will be an equivalent hassle to firing your p
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by ryandvm 2y ago
If he's not worried about making more money why are the "approve Elon's compensation package" ads the only ads that Tesla has ever run?
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Consciousness is an evolved information system requirement in all life forms that are complex enough to be capable of computationally modelling their environment, and importantly, their own place in that environment. You cannot model the wo
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by ryandvm 2y ago
A voice recognition based task app is not the same thing as an LLM. They are solving two completely different problems. It's like saying you prefer bike riding instead of grilled cheese sandwiches. Ask Siri to write unit tests for a fu
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I've been writing code for 20+ years and I did not recognize a single product you mentioned. I am so glad I got off the front end treadmill. If you need me I'll be over here writing APIs using the same stack I was using 5 years ag
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Can we please stop calling it "hallucination"? That is such a poor word choice it's not even remotely accurate. Hallucinations are perceptual experiences not grounded in reality. LLMs don't have perception and they most
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by ryandvm 2y ago
ChatGPT4 has basically replaced Google for me when I'm looking for a quick answer and not additional resources. That said, I'm curious how this is going to go from here because right now the values of LLMs is that they've bee
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Musk has no intention of colonizing Mars - or if he does, he's dumber than I thought. The Musk secret recipe has always been about suckling on federal contracts and subsidies to get rich. Just imagine the payday on the exorbitant inter
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I used to worry about "bus factor", but after seeing countless "indespensible" people leave abruptly and the companies recover just fine, I don't really think it's an issue. It generally sets objectives back a
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I'm having trouble following your logic. Aren't the symptoms you're describing commonly associated with long COVID? As far as I'm aware, people that were vaccinated that didn't get COVID don't have any of tho
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Tough situation. The amount of time I spend on Stack Overflow has probably dropped by 90% since I've started paying for ChatGPT4. Clearly it's only capable of what it is because of the massive amount of data like Stack Overflow th
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by ryandvm 2y ago
That was always a stupid argument because if you replicate how humans do it, you're going to replicate our failure modes too. Things like being crappy at night driving, subject to optical illusions, etc. I can assure you that a human w
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by ryandvm 2y ago
You ask them about their experience. What projects they've worked on. What things they've created. Then you drill down into the details with them. What was hard? What was surprising? How did they solve it? How would they do it dif
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by ryandvm 2y ago
> I've been blown away by a candidate while they're talking about their experience, but then asking them to code something small, they utterly bomb. You're making the opposite point you think you are. How do you know that
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I'm sure you've already found them but as a layman fascinated with this stuff, Fermilab (Don) and PBS Space Time are my two favorite YouTube channels on these subjects.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
There is almost certainly no crime these whistleblowers are going to uncover that is worse than ordering a hit. Besides, I can't think of any crime more likely to fail, be a sting, or have monstrous blowback. The reality is that the to
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Bingo. When I write some 100% bespoke code that is rather hastily composed and then paste it all into ChatGPT4 asking it to "refactor this code with a focus on testability and maintainability" and not only does it do so, but it do
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by ryandvm 2y ago
People are going to know you're pretentious.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Agreed, but if you're going to play whataboutism, then you surely understand that China does not allow US companies unfettered idealogical access to their populace, so why should we grant them as much?
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by ryandvm 2y ago
The only problem is that there's absolutely nothing green about an 8,000 pound truck that will only last 10 years. It can't tow worth a shit, so it's absolutely not a truck for people that actually need trucks. It's envi
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I'd also point out that given just how bloody the bleeding edge of software development tooling is, only investing in things that have managed to stick around for a decade sounds pretty damn smart. Hell, React alone has been through 3
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Wait until you find out about Postman
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Not OP, but I have a similar amount of experience and kind of feel the same way. You used to provision machines, setup the OS, think about networking, disk space, CPUs, RAM, etc. That stuff was kind of fun. Then you'd write code to bu
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Look, when I can dump a function into GPT4 and tell it to "refactor the following function with an emphasis on maintainability and testing" and it does a pretty damn good job of refactoring it, I have a hard time believing that th
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by ryandvm 3y ago
This is because corporations are permitted to influence politics with money. This is an absurd predicament. The more money you allow into politics, the more politics becomes about money.

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